Control Quotes
6641 quotes by 4195 authors
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The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is a conception that…
— Isaiah Berlin
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Success emerges from the quality of the decisions we make and the quantity of luck we receive. We can't control luck. But we can control…
— Chip Heath
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We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it…
— Adrienne Rich
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Self-mastery is a challenge for every individual. Only we can control our appetites and passions. Self-mastery cannot be bought by money or fame. It is…
— James E. Faust
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It [a new world order] needs only that the governments of Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Russia should get together in order to…
— H.G. Wells
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I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State…
— H.G. Wells
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Society really seems to have developed an unquestioning obedience towards spooky types… Did we get to where we are today via a slippery slope that…
— Edward Snowden
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Worry means tormenting yourself with disturbing thoughts or fretting about things we have zero control over. If you live in the north there is no…
— Jack White
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And yet as a coach, I know that being fixated on winning (or more likely, not losing) is counterproductive, especially when it causes you to…
— Phil Jackson
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The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating various countries’ shares…
— John Holdren
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The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive…
— John Holdren
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My only fixed truth is a belief in people, a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control…
— Saul Alinsky
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Control healthcare and you control the people
— Saul Alinsky
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I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.
— Pat Toomey
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If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.
— Pat Toomey
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The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use…
— Ahmadu Bello
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And it is that one percent, the heads of large corporations, who control the policies of news media and determine what you and I hear…
— Assata Shakur
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It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able…
— Alan Turing
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You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.
— Tim Berners-Lee
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I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.
— Gale Norton
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